WRITER'S WORKSHOP MINI LESSONS

Editing: Mini Lessons for Checking a Writing Piece for Capitalization, Punctuation, Spacing, and Illustrations, Etc.

The pencil anchor chart on the wall was created by me based on the work of the wonderful Kindergarten teachers at Washington Elementary School in Sheboygan, WI.  They are a "Comprehensive Literacy School" based on Linda Dorn's work in Arkansas, and shared the pencil anchor chart idea with a team of teachers that visited them a few years ago.  Thanks to them for their originality and generous sharing spirits!

• Large Editing Icons for Pencil:     

• Small Student Editing Pencils:    

Lesson 5: Using an Editing Checklist

Gather students around the carpet area.

Briefly discuss what was learned the past few days...

Say:

• "Finding WHAT the problems are, 

• knowing WHY they are problems, 

• deciding WHO will fix them, and 

• knowing HOW to fix them is very important."

Tell students that today's book will help us all to become better writers.

Share that the book is about a dog name Charlie.

Say, "Charlie lives on a farm, but really wants to live in the city."

Say, "Charlie writes a newspaper ad/article saying that he wants a new owner so he can live in the city."

Say, "After he does this, he begins to receive lots and lots of letters in the mail from people who want to own him."

Say, "But....Charlie has RULES about what kind of owner he wants." 

Say, "Let's read the book to see how Charlie handles all the letters from people who want to own him."

Read Charlie's Checklist by Rory Lerman.

Define the word "checklist" with student help.

Discuss the checklist that Charlie used.

Discuss how Charlie used the checklist.

Discuss how the checklist was helpful to Charlie.

Say, "This book helps us to become better writers, because we now know that using a checklist can be useful."

Say, "We are going to use a new writing tool that will help us to become better writers.  It is similar to a checklist."

Point to the empty pencil ANCHOR CHART on the wall.

	Color 8.5 x 11 Checklist Pictures	Empty Color Student Pencil Checklist Picture	Non-Moveable Color Icons Student Pencil Checklists	Moveable Color Icons Student Pencil Checklists

 

 

 

Say, "Beginning tomorrow, we are going to put pictures and words on that pencil."

Say, "The pictures and words will be our Writing Checklist."

Dismiss students for Writer's Workshop.

Resources:

Charlie's Checklist by Rory Lerman